Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-14
4 CHRISTIANS REWARD.
Christ to Divide Up All the Earth and
All the Heavens Among the
Strong in Christian Loyalty.
The Enterprise Of the Worlds Eedemp'
ton Taken Out Of the Impossible
Into the Possible.
Worldly Rewards Insignificant Compared
With the Trophies Awaiting the
Soldiers of Jesus Christ.
Distribution OF REWARDS.

Special TO the Gazette.
BROOKLYN, n. Y, Jan. 9-The opening
hymn at the Brooklyn tabernacle this
morning begins:
o, could speak the matchless worth!
y, could l sound the gl0ries forth
Whic4 in my Saviour shlnel
DR.. Talmage explained some of the
the prophecies before giving out the
hymn, and then preached on the subject
redistribution of Rewards" taking his
text from Isaiah lii u: ole shall di-
vide the spoil with the strong" DR.
Talmage apoke as follows:
My family, who saw it with their OWL
eyes year before last, tell me that in the
coliseum ct Rome, where prosecutors
used to let out the half-staryed lions to
eat up Christians, there is now planted
the figure of a cross. And L rejoice to
know that the upright piece of wood
nailed to 8 transverse piece has become
the symbol, not more OF suffering than of
victory. 1t is of Christ, the ConquerCr,
that my text speaks. AS kingly warrior,
having subdued an empire, might divide
the palaces, andimansiors, and cities, and
valleys, and mountains among his officers,
SO Christ is going to divide up all the
earth and and all the heavens among His
people, and you and l will have to take
our share if we are strong in faith and
strong IN our Christian loyalty, for my
text declares it: ale Shall divide the
spoil With the stroDg,m
The capture of this round planet for
Christ IS not SO much of a job as you
mightimagine, when the church takes off
its coat aud
ROLLS UP ITS SLEEVES
+ for the work, as it will. There are
1900, 900, 900 Of people now in the world,
and there ere $50, 100000 Christians SUB
tract the $50, 600 600 who are Christians
from the 1000, 100000, and there are
1,l50,GC0 ,OOO left to be Clristianized.
Now divide the l $50, 10000 by the $780,
100000 already Christianized. and it
makes only twenty-five people for each
Christian to bring TO Christ. Surely
when the church gets wide awake no
Christian will be content to take to
heaven | SIS than twenty-five. Why |
hope to take with me at least 10000. l
know eyangelistS that have already gath
cred $4,000 each for the kingdom. There
are at least 200, 900 men in Christendom
whose one business it is to save souls. SO
that when l tell you ali that we need to
average is twenty-five souls reap
ed for God in q lifetime, all
idea of impossibility vanishes from
this omnipotent crusade. l know of
Sabbath-schOo teacher who has spent her
lifetime IN teaching the young, aud she
has had FIVE different classes during all
these years, and she tells me they aver
aged about seven in a class, and they we're
all converted, and five times seven fare
thirty five, as near as | can calculste. fShe
hrnr hp1 anti five hoA
spare. My grandmother brougLt her
whole family into the kingdom, and her
grandchildren, and, hope, al her great
grandchildren, for God remembers .
prayer slkenty-fye years old as well as
though sere 4 minute; and she took her
twenEr III the Kingdom, and had at |!
IeassC& loo % SPARE. Besides that, the
telegraph and telephone will within a few |
years put the whole earth into
ACOMPAss OF TEN MINUTES.
Consider this and also that Omnipotence. |
Omniscience and Omnipresence preside
over all the work of betterment, and !
you will take this enterprise OF the |
worlds redemption out of the impossi-
bllities into the possibilities, ard then out !
of the possibilities into the probabilities,
and then out of the probabilities into the
certainties. The building of the Union
Pacific Railroad from ocean 10 ocean was
greater undertaking than the girdling Of
the earth with the Gospel, for the one en-
terprise depended upon the human arm,
while the other depends upon Almighti-
ness.
Do really mean all the earth viii sur
render to Christ? Yes. How about the
uninyiting portions? viii Greenland be
evangelical? The possibility is that
after few more hundred brave lives are
dashed out among the icebergs, that great
the Polar region, will be
given up to the walruS and the bear and
that the inhabitants will come down by
invitation into tolerable climates, or those
climates may soften, and, as il has been !
positively demonstrated that the Arctic {
region was once blooming garden and :
fruitful field, those regions may change I
climate and again be g blooming garden '
and fruitful field. 1t is proved, beyond s
controversy, by German and American /
that the Arctic regions were I
The first portions of this world inhablts- q
BILE; the world hot beyond human en- !
tQrance, those regions were of course, &
,he\frst to be cool enough for human s
DOT and human lung. 1t is positively Y
proved that the Arctic region was trop- S
cal climate. Professor Heer Of Zurich C
Jays the remains of flowers have been C
ound in the Arctic, showing it was like n
Mexico for climate, and it is found that t
he Arctic was t
THE MOTHER REGION
rom which all the flowers descended. g
Wallace says the remains of all n
tyles of animal life are found in the Arc t
ic, including those animals that can live d
'nly in warm climates. Now, that Arctic
egion which has been demonstrated by d
ors, and fauna, and geological argument
0 have been as full of vegetation aud life i:
s our Florida, may be turned back to its Il
riginal bloom and glory, or it viii be o
hut up as museum of crystals for curl q
sity seekers once in a while to visit is
tut Arctic and Antarctic in some shape il
yill belong to the Redeemer's realm. il
What about other unproductive or re- Il
ulsve religions? Ali the deserts VIII be Il
.rigated, the water Will be forced up to a!
le great American desert between here 81
ed the Pacific by machinery now known ii
r yet to be invented, and, as great Salt dl
axe City he's no rain and could not raise es
D apple or bushel OF wheat in q hun th
red years without artificial help, bat is 81
oW through such means one great gar W
en-, so al the unproductive psrts OF all do
le continents will be turned into harvest az
eds aud orchards. A half dozen De Les ar
,ps will furnish The world with all the ~
mails needed, and Will change the course or
rivers and open new lakes, and great de
.hara Desert will be cut up into farms liz
It'll en- astounding yield of bushels to tn
G acre. The marsh Will be drained of Gu
waters and cured of its malaria. l de
W the other day what was for msnv to
ars called the Black Swamp of Ohio, its H,
lief crop cnills aud fevers, but now, by an
e tiles put into the ground to carry off tn,
2 surplus moisture, transformed into an